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John A. Assad

John A. Assad is a cognitive neuroscientist who studies how the brain represents visual information, economic value, and decisions to move; he is Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School.

John A. Bargh

John A. Bargh, also known as John Bargh, is an American social psychologist at Yale who studies unconscious influences on judgment and behavior, including priming.

John A. Bogovic

John A. Bogovic is a computer scientist and image-analysis researcher at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, known for work on the adult fruit fly brain connectome and OpenOrganelle.

John A. Cidlowski

John A. Cidlowski is an American molecular endocrinologist who has led the Molecular Endocrinology Group at NIEHS in North Carolina since 1995, studying glucocorticoid receptor signaling and apoptosis.

John A. Clausen

John A. Clausen (1915–1996) was an American sociologist and social psychologist who studied mental health, socialization, and the life course, leading a laboratory at the National Institute of Mental Health.

John A. Dani

John A. Dani is a neuroscientist who studies nicotine addiction and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, chair of neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine since 2013.

John A. Glomset

John A. Glomset is an American biochemist at the University of Washington known for discovering protein prenylation, the attachment of prenyl groups that anchor proteins to membranes.

John A. Hanover

John A. Hanover is an American glycobiologist who leads a laboratory at the NIH's NIDDK in Bethesda and pioneered research on O-GlcNAc, a nutrient-sensing sugar modification of proteins, winning the 2021 Karl Meyer Award.

John A. Kessler

John A. Kessler is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, known for research on neural stem cells and spinal cord regeneration.

John A. Klingensmith

John A. Klingensmith is an American developmental biologist at Duke University Medical Center who uses mouse genetics to study how the head, foregut, and heart form in embryos.

John A. Tainer

John A. Tainer is an American structural biologist who determines atomic structures of DNA repair proteins, work linking mutations in those machines to cancer, at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

John A. Todd (medical geneticist)

John A. Todd (John Andrew Todd) is a British medical geneticist known for his work on the genetics and prevention of type 1 diabetes, and a professor at Oxford.

John Abelson

John Abelson (born 1938 in Washington) is an American molecular biologist and Caltech emeritus professor known for tRNA splicing, yeast RNA ligase, and the spliceosome machinery his lab named the spliceozyme.

John Abrams (molecular biologist)

John M. Abrams is a molecular biologist and Professor of Cell Biology at UT Southwestern in Dallas, known for identifying the Drosophila cell death gene reaper.

John Andrew Pospisilik

John Andrew Pospisilik (born 1976, Vancouver) is a Canadian epigeneticist who chairs the Department of Epigenetics at Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, since 2018.

John B. Hogenesch

John B. Hogenesch (born 1967) is a Dutch-born American chronobiologist who directs the Center for Circadian Medicine at Cincinnati Children's and is known for discovering BMAL1, the master regulator of the mammalian clock.

John B. Little (radiation biologist)

John B. Little (1929–2020) was an American radiation biologist and environmental health scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health whose 1992 experiment launched the radiation bystander-effect field.

John B. Ohlrogge

John B. Ohlrogge, also known as John Ohlrogge, was an American plant biochemist at Michigan State University who studied plant lipid metabolism and engineered oil crops.

John B. Robbins

John B. Robbins (1932–2019) was an American physician-scientist in microbiology and immunology who developed the polysaccharide-protein conjugate vaccine principle, enabling Hib vaccines that nearly eliminated childhood bacterial meningitis.

John B. Wallingford

John B. Wallingford is a developmental biologist and professor of molecular biosciences at the University of Texas at Austin, known for work on planar cell polarity and birth defects.

John B. West

John B. West (John Burnard West), born 1928 in Adelaide, is an Australian-born American respiratory physiologist at UC San Diego who led the first physiological measurements on Mount Everest's summit.

John B. Zabriskie

John B. Zabriskie (1929–2017) was an American physician-scientist at Rockefeller University who headed its Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology and showed that antibodies against group A streptococcus also attack heart tissue, explaining rheumatic fever.

John Bergeron

John Bergeron is a Canadian cell biologist at McGill University known for discovering the calnexin cycle and pioneering organellar proteomics, and appointed to the Order of Canada.

John Blenis

John Blenis is an American cancer cell biologist at Weill Cornell Medicine, known for defining the Ras–ERK and PI3K/mTOR pathways that control cell growth and metabolism.

John Boyer (plant physiologist)

John S. Boyer is an American plant physiologist known for research on how water status controls plant growth and crop productivity, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1990.

John Bretland Farmer

John Bretland Farmer (1865–1944) was a British botanist who showed that chromosome reduction precedes fertilization in liverworts and, with J. E. S. Moore, identified common features of reduction division in animals and plants.

John Briggs (structural biologist)

John A. G. Briggs is a British structural biologist who uses cryo-electron tomography to determine protein structures inside intact HIV-1 and influenza A particles, and directs a department at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

John Brigham Ward

John Brigham Ward (1928–2016) was a British-born New Zealand entomologist who specialized in caddisfly taxonomy and worked for many years as a research associate of Canterbury Museum, Christchurch.

John Browse

John Browse is a New Zealand-born plant biochemist at Washington State University who used Arabidopsis mutants to work out how plants build membrane and seed lipids.

John Burdon-Sanderson

John Burdon-Sanderson, also known as Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, was an English physiologist (1828–1905) who measured electrical changes in heart, muscle, and plants, and built British physiology at Oxford.